2.1507 : 6/18/09 : Downhill Side (The Golden Age: 52/100)

I guess I rolled right over the top

I’ll let myself get away with one more short hop

Here on the downhill side

To think I once pinned so much on pride

And just what have I got things pinned on now?

Another night so what another vow

To roll on the downside

To think I once pinned so much on pride

Here we are on the downhill side

To think I once pinned so much on pride

Here on the downhill side

Thinking how I once pinned so much on pride

what

2.1506 : 6/17/09 : Hoe the Row (The Golden Age: 51/100)

Nothing growing there

don’t expect much to come up

Guess I missed the sweet spot

Maybe screwed my green thumb up

But hoe the row anyway

pretend to expect to see something any day

Think someone might notice

finally call me out

I wouldn’t try to hide or lie

I’d confess to all my doubt

But still I’d hoe the row anyway

pretend to expect to see something any day

And here I hoe the row anyway

pretend to expect to see something any day

Yes I hoe the row anyway

pretend to expect to see something

anything

any day

what

2.1505 : 6/16/09 : Transition (The Golden Age: 50/100)

Time is time and sometimes there’s none

Not going to apologize to anyone

But the transition will be effortless

Just sit back and watch this white hot mess

Bang yeah that’s it baby the-the-the-the that’s all

Pack up you lipstick and leave the other shoe isn’t going to fall

And the transition will be effortless

Just sit back and watch this white hot mess

Yeah the transition will be effortless

So sit back and watch this white hot mess

And the transition will be effortless

just

sit back and watch this old white hot mess

what

2.1504 : 6/15/09 : We’ve Got to Do Better (The Golden Age: 49/100)

Sometimes troubles come in torrents

May I rise as the situation warrants

We’ve got to do better

We may well need our best

To past through this small fire

To pass the next test

I make this simple request

let me do close to my best

We’ve got to do better

We may well need our best

To past through this small fire

To pass the next test

We’ve got to do better

We may well need our best

Well there’s always some fire

always the next test

what

2.1503 : 6/14/09 : Horse (The Golden Age: 48/100)

Said it before

no doubt say it again

I can guess at anything

at all except when

I guess I gotta get back on the horse

you ask me if I knew I say of course

I know I’ve fallen back too quick on force

Paint I been calling you until I’m hoarse

for the want of that horse

my kingdom went up in smoke

Lean in early riser

let me tell you my joke!

I guess I gotta get back on the horse

you ask me if I knew I say of course

I know I’ve fallen back too quick on force

Paint I been calling you until I’m hoarse

Oh Paint? Oh Paint where have you gotten to

I hope I didn’t wait so long you thought I had forgotten you

I guess I gotta get back on the horse

you ask me if I knew I say of course

I know I’ve fallen back too quick on force

Paint I been calling you until I’m hoarse

I guess I gotta get back on the horse

you ask me if I knew I say of course

I know I’ve fallen back too quick on force

Paint I been calling you until I’m hoarse

what

2.1502 : 6/13/09 : Screw That Noise 3 (The Golden Age: 47/100)

Screw this noise

Just leave me be a while

I’m so tired of talking to you

mile after mile after mile

turn off the radio

screw that noise

everything that man creates

he soon enough destroys

I guess that’s the test isn’t it

I guess I’m best beginning it

this blasphemy of my true heart

It’s sure not how I thought I’d start

turn off the radio

screw that noise

everything that man creates

he soon enough destroys

turn off the radio

screw that noise

everything that man creates

he soon enough destroys

turn off the radio

screw that noise

screw that noise

screw that noise

what

2.1501 : 6/12/09 : Screw That Noise II (The Golden Age: 46/100)

While I’ve got You here hey

let’s talk about evil

why the hell did you make evil?

Is it really so dumb like some

people say you’ve got to have it to make evil

well, screw that noise

screw that noise

fuck evil people

screw that noise

Let me break it down for you:

You could have a million choices that were all good too

And if I had a choice between no evil and free will

I wouldn’t even have to think give me the pill

screw that noise

screw that noise

fuck evil people

screw that noise

screw that noise

screw that noise

fuck evil people

screw that noise

screw that noise

screw that noise

fuck evil people, yeah

screw that noise

what

1500 : 6/11/09 : Screw This Noise I (The Golden Age: 45/100)

How far can this nonsense go

Sure it could turn into a sinister tragedy

Hey God you’re not doing shit down here

So hey God is all your scripture a travesty

Screw this noise

Screw this noise

You and all your boys

Screw this noise

What would you like for a follow up

Over two thousand years since you

refused to refuse that cup

and what if you had if you’d said screw that noise

You’re going to tell me things would be more screwed up?

well

Screw that noise

Screw that noise

You and all your boys

Screw that noise

Screw that noise

Screw that noise

You and all your boys

Screw that noise

Screw that noise

Screw that noise

Screw that noise

Screw that noise

what

2.1499 : 6/10/09 : 1999 (The Golden Age: 44/100)

Every so often I dial the decade back

and write the date out 1999

guess you call that pushing 40

I remember that year just fine

1999

the towers hadn’t fell

but even then I didn’t think

things were going too well

this’ll never be a dance hit

nostalgia a decade stale

And it’s worse than I imagined

yet I still don’t know if we’re finally beyond the pale

1999

the towers hadn’t fell

but even then I didn’t think

things were going too well

1999

the towers hadn’t fell

but even then I didn’t think

things were going too well

1999

the towers hadn’t fell

but even then I didn’t think

things were going too well

what

2.1498 : 6/9/09 : Try Try Again (The Golden Age: 43/100)

Oh my I’m getting boring

with my nice little refrains

and the near-daily indulgences

and their near indelible stains

try try again

that won’t really cut it

get it it’s a refrain

but if you’ve got nothing better, shut it

wish I could quit there

because that wraps it up just fine

refrain, refrain, refrain, refrain, repair

hell with it just bind it all up with twine

try try again

that won’t really cut it

get it it’s a refrain

but if you’ve got nothing better, shut it

try try again

that won’t really cut it

get it it’s a refrain

but if you’ve got nothing better, shut it

try try again

that won’t really cut it

get it it’s a refrain

but if you’ve got nothing better

just shut it

what

2.1497 : 6/8/09 : Turning (The Golden Age: 42/100)

3,687 : 42 ?

Flow time without

any lists of reasons

Forget history starting now

no shred left of days or seasons

turn turning

rain to blazing

leaves to bare limbs

all amazing

will I recall

will I mark the days

what will make a mark

So much the same in so many ways

turn turning

rain to blazing

leaves to bare limbs

all amazing

turn turning

rain to blazing

leaves to bare limbs

all amazing

turn turning

rain to blazing

leaves to bare limbs

all amazing

what

2.1496 : 6/7/09 : The Finest One There Is (The Golden Age: 41/100)

Is it the first or last that’s

the finest one there is

the finest of a fine day

take notes there’s going to be a quiz

the first last, the last last

the finest one there is

the was when, the long past

Yours, theirs, ours, hers, his

And all the middle verses

seem to speak to on another

We have a common ancestor

once called invention’s mother

the first last, the last last

the finest one there is

the was when, the long past

Yours, theirs, ours, hers, his

the first last, the last last

the finest one there is

the was when, the long past

Yours, theirs, ours, hers, his

The beginning of the end, the end of the beginning

the finest of the finest

the end of loss the start of winning

the cruelest month, the kindest

what

2.1495 : 6/6/09 : A Real Vacation (The Golden Age: 40/100)

Asia, Africa, Italy, Ireland

get out of this stale hegemony

this ship is gonna blast off just as

soon as we get shipped our napkins, lemony

I need a real vacation

go on a real long plane ride

a boat trip would be good too

Just go to see some other side

Call this one zero yeah

believe what all I’ve learned

believe in what I saved

believe in what I’ve burned

I need a real vacation

go on a real long plane ride

a boat trip would be good too

Just go to see some other side

I need a real vacation

go on a real long plane ride

a boat trip would be good too

Just go to see some other side

Let’s go, a real vacation

go on a real long plane ride

then maybe on a boat trip

just go. let’s go see another side

what

2.1494 : 6/5/09 : Beat Midnight (The Golden Age: 39/100)

I don’t know how I’m going to do tomorrow

I’ve got a list about as long as my arm

Maybe I should have shot for being a doctor

Start my day out with nothing but do no harm

But I know tonight I’m going to beat midnight

As long as I concentrate and keep this tight

I can’t get around something I’m doing wrong

back at all my old stupid tricks

But tonight I’ll beat midnight, try try again

no more fooling around, no more clicks

Tonight I know I’m going to beat midnight

As long as I concentrate and keep this tight

Tonight I know I’m going to beat midnight

As long as I concentrate and keep this tight

Yeah I know tonight I’m going to beat midnight

concentrate so hard right now

and keep this one tight

what

2.1493 : 6/4/09 : A Pistol (The Golden Age: 38/100)

All the world must be on some

better trip than poor old this one

well it’s a miserly wicked junket

and I’m one miserable son of a gun

That’s to say a pistol

have and will travel

put it in the bank and

bang the gavel

judge me by my gloomy words

my feeble resume of life

untravelled living in flyover land

and claiming absurd strife

Still I’m a pistol

have and will travel

put it in the bank and

bang the gavel

Yeah I’m a pistol

have and will travel

put it in the bank and

bang the gavel

Yeah I’m a pistol

have and will travel

put it in the bank and

bang the gavel

what

2.1492 : 6/3/09 : Except it Does (The Golden Age: 37/100)

Always back to some square

doesn’t even have a number marked

And so many times I said I’d make it there

another May come and nothing sparked

It just never stops

except it does

but nobody can really deal with that

And so we say, hey, just because

Surely this must be the last

hilarious what a clever jest

Surely this too will pass

Surely this must be my ever best

It just never stops

except it does

but nobody can really deal with that

And so we say, hey, just because

It just never stops

except it does

but nobody can really deal with that

And so we say, hey, just because

It just never stops

except it does

but nobody can really deal with that

And so we say it’s just because

what

2.1491 : 6/2/09 : Bellwether (The Golden Age: 36/100)

Follow along follow behind

follow the one you’ve been told to mind

Follow the bellwether

Don’t ask just go wherever

tally up and take your handout

We needn’t worry you’ll be back no doubt

Follow the bellwether

Don’t ask just go wherever

Follow the bellwether

Don’t ask just go wherever

Follow the bellwether

Don’t ask just go wherever

1490 : 6/1/09 : Spin (The Golden Age: 35/100)

3,681 : 36 ?

Spin, spin everybody’s got some

lose some wins some in a tight spot some

spin spin, nothing but spin

try to lose again win again

Soon to be too late what a waste

dying to go out with that forbidden taste

spin spin, nothing but spin

try to lose again win again

spin spin, nothing but spin

try to lose again win again

spin spin, nothing but spin

try to lose again win again

what